At VON 2006, Caroline Little, CEO and Publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, spoke of the role Web-video would play in online news, as well as the viral aspects of the new medium, as media converge to form a new style of storytelling.
VON 2006 Conference.
"The vast majority of the buzz in the video world lately is the concept of viral distribution of video," said Azerbaijan and how the Post used those three forms of media to convey the story.
"We found that Web-quality video costs much less than broadcast-quality in terms of equipment and facilities."
One thing to note is that Web-video is always on, unlike its broadcast counterpoint.
During the question and answer portion of the presentation, Little was questioned about the impact the Internet was having on print news.
"I don't think that newspapers are going to become extinct," she said. "I see newspapers going into multiple areas - such as videos."
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